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I have to tell myself that there will be a climax to my healing. It is not as though any of this is tangible. It is not like taking orthotricyclene and having everything run like clockwork. It is [...]

It has snowed for four days. While the moon swelled into fullness and now slowly wanes away like an apple, one sliver-slice at a time, so too the snow has climaxed and started to melt, infecting [...]

For my seventeenth birthday party I had a little hoo-rah with a handful of friends. We decided we just wanted a slumber party and kept things pretty simple. There was nothing particularly [...]

Eddie Vedder was mysterious and that’s why he was sexy. Of course, in eighth and ninth grade, I hadn’t yet made that connection; I was too overwhelmed and mesmerized by the music and the [...]

I discover that planting in the larger pot is not much more difficult, but it is meticulous and the evening is growing long. It takes about half an hour to do each tray because every pot is [...]

It finally occurred to me that in order to communicate with Jo about time, I needed to talk in terms of sunlight. A man who lives on solar power pays attention to sunlight, without a doubt – so [...]

Seven words into the second grade spelling test, it hit. “Locke, go tell Mrs. Mary that I couldn’t finish giving you your test,” I said desperately to the small child as I dashed to the bathroom. [...]

nur-ture (nur’cher), n. [ME. nuriture; Ofr. norreture, nourture; LL. nutritura < L. nurtrire, to nourish; see NURSE], 1. anything that nourishes; food; nutriment. 2. the act or process of raising [...]

I am officially sending roots down through the bottoms of my feet and into the mica-speckled hearty soil of the Southern Appalachian chain. In other words, I used leftover bacon grease to line [...]

Tonight B.J., Sienna, and Eli (from the boarding school I used to teach at) came over for dinner and general hang out time. They are in 7th, 8th, and 9th grades respectively and I as they walk in [...]